The Candlelight Master
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The Candlelight Master

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The Candlelight Master

About this book

A haunting exploration of memory, art, and war from one of Ireland's foremost poets.

The Candlelight Master delves into the chiaroscuro of life, illuminating both shadows and light. Inspired by a mysterious Baroque painter, this collection contemplates the quest for artistic perfection in the face of age. Poems about Matisse and Bonnard reveal the vital connection between art and life. Addressed to the eighth-century Japanese poet, Otomo Yakamochi, Longley reflects on how we gaze on our soul-landscapes more intensely with every year. The collection explores memory, war, and translation, speaking to our own dark times. Longley's Carrigskeewaun becomes a meeting place for dead poets and lyric voices of the past.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Start
  3. Matisse
  4. Bonnard
  5. Orpen
  6. Ledwidge
  7. Glossary
  8. Ors
  9. Maisie's Poem
  10. Flower-names
  11. War
  12. Glory
  13. Xanthos
  14. Empty Chariots
  15. Ballyboley
  16. Moths & Butterflies
  17. Dandelions
  18. Ravensbrück
  19. Primo's Question
  20. Echo
  21. St Cross
  22. Thimbles
  23. Couplets for Claude Field
  24. Sedge-warblers
  25. After Amergin
  26. Prints
  27. Night
  28. A Grasshopper
  29. Heliodora
  30. Et
  31. New Poem
  32. In My Sleep
  33. Poem
  34. Pietà
  35. Birth
  36. Toes
  37. Primary School
  38. Courting Couples
  39. Key-changes
  40. Hochmagandy
  41. Another Pipistrelle
  42. Cardoso
  43. Heifers
  44. Victor
  45. To Otomo Yakamochi
  46. The Anthologist
  47. Grass of Parnassus
  48. Inkwell
  49. Another Sandpiper
  50. Wild Orchids
  51. Wasp Orchid
  52. Fen Violet
  53. Moly
  54. Eilean Bàn
  55. Gyrfalcons
  56. Sonnet for Michael Viney
  57. The Walk
  58. December
  59. Brother
  60. Peter
  61. Tadpoles
  62. Birthday Party
  63. Love
  64. Notes & Acknowledgements

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